Radish legs
12/13/2006 @ 6:00 am
After sitting around until 3:00 a.m. waiting for the site to come back on line after it decided to drop off the radar screen for a while, I am simply too tired to post anything.
In the meantime, here is a photo of some models in Taiwan with radishes painted on their legs to promote the 2006 Touwu (Taiwant) Radish Festival.
It seems that the Taiwanese refer to fat legs as “radish legs,” just as they do in Japan (where the word is daikon ashi).
Good night!
[...] The most important news of the week for all you Canadian readers out there, the Daily Kimchi has the latest on where to buy maple syrup in Korea. If anyone is into radishes here is a radish festival that some of you may find of interest; especially when it involves hot Taiwanese models. If you are not into radishes than maybe you can go to Kazakhstan and preach the wonders of lettuce there. [...]
December 17th, 2006 at 9:04 amJP,
December 18th, 2006 at 2:35 pmYou beat me to the punch. I saw that photo on the front page of the local paper and meant to post a story about it, but see you did already. Good on ya, mate! The use of radish legs in Taiwan comes from the Japanese colonial period, 1895-1945, when so much of Japanese culture permeated the island of Formosa, and even now, 2006, much remains. That is why i often refer to Taiwan as Taiwan Prefecture, or Daiwan-ken…….:smile: